Diane Jodes
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Cicatrice Urbaine, DKolletif - VEWA Dudelange 2023
RELIEF
The sprawling steel production site surrounding VEWA reminds me of a disaster zone, prompting the immediate response to erect a shelter tent for any survivors.
I created this shelter from discarded materials donated by the local Red Cross Dudelange and also from my own accumulation of inherited, collected and saved materials. Old sheets, pillow cases, shirts, pants, napkins, table cloths, etc. were cut up and reconfigured into a giant patchwork to cover a standard ‘relief’ tent structure.
The installation can be interpreted in different ways. From the outside it presents itself as bright, cheerful and inviting, a cosy sight on rough terrain. Visitors who step inside will find traces of work, seams which are frayed, with rudimentary sewing connecting each piece, fragile materials supported by strong sturdy materials, old materials next to new synthetic materials. Perhaps a symbolic mirror of our society, or strong cells helping heal damaged cells, supporting and regenerating each other?
The installation offers a point of departure for visitors to create their own meaning and connections to the site.
 pre-project site visitlaminoir Dudelange |  pre-project site visitlaminoir Dudelange |
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 pre-project site visitlaminoir Dudelange |  pre-project site visitlaminoir Dudelange, structure within structure |
 pre-project site visitDudelange VEWA surrounding buildings |  event invite by DKollektif |
 first preps |  first pannel |
 final sewing assembly |  tent structure |
 day time |  general view with Tessuti by Robert Hall |
 hall view |  general viewphoto © Serge Ecker |
 opening eventphoto © Serge Ecker |  openingphoto © Serge Ecker |
 eveningphoto © Serge Ecker |  text samplephoto © Serge Ecker texts from writing workshop with Fabienne Faust |
 Screenshot 2024-01-17 at 11.04.57 AM |  night time |
 Relief inside |  foreground, Tessuti by Robert Hall |
Preserve(s)
exhibition project for
Fellner Contemporary
2022
paintings
prints
scenery
objects
In her new series of works, the artist deals with questions of preservation, which means the question of inheritance, keeping, holding in value or valuing.
We are all attached to certain objects, not necessarily because of their material value, but because they have always accompanied us, as objects of memories. Childhood memories of a silver spoon, the scissors skillfully used by grandmother, mysterious vases painted with flowers that were simply always there and fired out imagination. And, of course, old photos that keep blurred or vanished memories alive forever, always retroactively telling and shaping our own history.
section of exhibition text
by Hans Fellner
 Self with Dachshundoil painting on card 24 x 18 cm 2021 |  exhibition invite |
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 L1150723vintage vases oil painting on canvas 100 x 100 cm 2022 |  Gutsneedle felted and knitted wool organs 2021-22 |
 heirloom #4Ida Pearl Barber's shoes oil painting on canvas 80 x 80 cm 2022 |  I See Youneedle felted and knitted wool eyes in glas container 2022 |
 heirlooms #10 and #8birth necklace and communion watch oil painting on canvas (2x) 40 x 20 cm 2022 |  heirloom # 7mask oil painting on canvas 50 x 40 cm 2022 |
 Missale 2.0scenery 6 light and sound boxes texts composed from missale one word per page boxes combined with lino prints prayer chair with missale and suspended virgin organ |  je ne regrette rienprayer/confession chair |
 Missale 2.0Missale prayer book one word per page to string new text |  The Virginneedle felted and knitted wool organ 2021/22 |
 exhibition viewFellner Contemporary 2a rue Wiltheim Luxembourg-City |  Brainneedle felted and knitted wool organ 2021/22 |
 Vincent and Renéstudio chair with artist's feet oil painting on canvas 120 x 100 cm 2022 |  Folded Upself in pram oil painting on canvas 120 x 100 cm 2022 |
 Heartfeltneedle felted and knitted wool organ 2021/22 |  heirloom #1not my cup oil painting on canvas 50 x 40 cm 2022 |
 Born with a Silver Spoonoil painting on canvas 50 x 40 cm 2022 |  Thyroïdeneedle felted and knitted wool organ 2022 |
 Mick the Catoil painting on canvas 80 x 50 cm 2022 |  Sparrowfor Mom oil painting on canvas 80 x 50 cm 2022 |
 Kidney-Bladderneedle felted and knitted wool organ 2021/22 |  heirloom #9scissors oil painting on canvas 50 x 40 cm 2022 |
 heirloom #11Mom's camera oil painting on canvas 50 x 40 cm 2022 |  Wear it Gracefullyoil painting on canvas 120 x 60 cm 2022 |
 Heirloom # 6transitional objects oil painting on canvas 100 x 80 cm 2022 |  heirloom #5puces/fleas oil painting on canvas 100 x 80 cm 2022 |
 3 oil paintings on canvas 20 x 20 cm each 2022 |  Night Time Couchoil painting on canvas 50 x 70 cm 2022 |
 Breathelungs needle felted and knitted wool organ 2021/22 |  Les FillettesMom and daughters acrylic painting on canvas 100 x 100 cm 2021 |
 Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas, Spleenneedle felted and knitted wool organs 2021/22 |  My Home is my Castleassembled object candle holder vintage ceramic plate model house 2020 |
 collages and prints exhibition view |  Moving Day / The Rescuecollages 60 x 30 cm framed 2021 |
 Family Portrait Ietching, cyanotype 38 x 28 cm paper format edition 7 2022 cyanotype made in collaboration with artist photographer Luc Ewen |  Family Portrait IIetching, cyanotype 38 x 28 cm paper format edition 7 2022 cyanotype made in collaboration with artist photographer Luc Ewen |
 Family Portrait IIIetching, cyanotype 38 x 28 cm paper format edition 7 2022 cyanotype made in collaboration with artist photographer Luc Ewen |  The D FactorRhesus Monkey acrylic painting on canvas 30 x 30 cm 2019 |
 preserve(s) |
Havarie 2021
Havarie f (genitive Havarie, plural Havarien) accident, emergency (most often of a ship);
collision, crash, loss by sea
A pool in almost perfect condition, condemned to disappear in the near future.
HAVARIE seems to perfectly describe the condition of this site, which is sinking into destruction and oblivion.
A pool emptied of its water without a purpose, all but a volume in space.
HAVARIE spelled out at the bottom of the empty pool foretells the site’s future. Ambient sounds create an atmosphere alluding to activity past or present.
External visual stimuli coming through the large windows are blocked out, to help immerse the visitor in the pool’s familiar sounds, and to raise awareness of a new and strange atmosphere.
Sound recording and installation Diane Jodes
sound mixing and composition Rajivan Ayyappan
at Schwämm Strutzbierg, Dudelange (L)2021
 Affiche |  Schwämm Strutzbierg |
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 outside in |  material |
 making milk glas |  design transfer |
 Buttermilk view |  painting X |
 Havarie |  Havarie3 |
Wanted 2019 XXL
printmaking residency organized
by and at Kulturhuef,Grevenmacher
theme: Luther, Gutenberg
and Steve Jobs
XXL woodcut formats 2,20m x 1,50m printed with a street- steamroller
during a 10 day event
exhibition of final works
June 20 - December 22, 2019
invited artists:
Diane Jodes (L)
Neckel Scholtus (L)
Anna Eiber (D)
Laas Koehler (D)
Thomas Peter (D)
 Wanted 2019 |  Still Life with Apple |
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 a matter of cutting |  |
 background platebackground pull |  |
 |  first pull |
 the Wanted 2019 edition |  almost ready to print |
 last cuts done |  first inking |
 flag printing |  full house |
 final exhibition pieceApple Dreams 2 colour woodcut 2,20m x 1,50m Wenn ich wüsste, dass morgen die Welt zugrunde geht, würde ich heute noch einen Apfelbaum pflanzen. Martin Luther |  Kulturhuef exhibition viewfrom June 20 - December 22, 2019 |
 variation prints |  Great Teaml-r Neckel Scholtus, Laas Koehler, Anna Eiber, Thomas Peter, Diane Jodes |
As Time Goes By
Centre d'art Nei Liicht, Dudelange 2016
paintings
prints
sceneries
objects
view exhibition book here
 Invitation |  Day To Be Herdedcollage on wooden boxes, clock parts |
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 Waiting Room |  Wait |
 Upload |  Keep It Up |
 Day is Done |  Day is Here |
 Space Hero |  |
 |  Space Cabinet |
 4 seasons |  What Reminds of Diane, Brigitte, ... |
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 Office |  |
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 Immortal Jelly |  |
 |  Bedroom |
 detail Parallel Stories40 prints, etchings, lino, typography printed on handkerchiefs, sewn and quilted into a bedcover |  Hi Ho |
Münsterland Festival
Part 8 Benelux, 2015
printmaking residency
at Kloster Bentlage
Rheine, Germany April 2015
participating BeNeLux printmakers
Thomas Amerlynck (B)
Patrick Mangnus (NL)
Diane Jodes (L)
3 exhibitions 3 artists
September 2105
at
Kunstverein Ahlen
Stadtmuseum Borken
Kloster Bentlage
 Parallel Stories@ Kunstverein Ahlen, September 2015 40 etchings, linocuts, letterpress on handkerchiefs |  Parallel Stories and friends@ Kunstverein Ahlen September 2015 |
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 Parallel Stories@ Stadtmuseum Borken 40 etchings, linocuts, letterpress on handkerchiefs |  3-D views@ Kloster Bentlage, September 2015 |
 Parallel Stories@ Kloster Bentlage, September 2015 40 etchings, linocuts, letterpress on handkerchiefs |  Patrick Mangnus work meets Diane Jodes work @ Kloster Bentlage, September 2015 |
 Dieu donne , à volonté@ Kloster Bentlage, September 2015 |  My Home is My Castle@ Kloster Bentlage |
 exhibition view@ Kunstverein Ahlen, September 2015 |  |
 lëtzebuerger Déierenimm@ Kunstverein Ahlen September 2015 |  |
 linoprint, etching on handherchief |  making... |
 special delivery from Münsterland |  linoprint, etching, sewing on handkerchief |
 so far |  linoprint on handkerchief |
 linoprint, etching on handkerchief |  linoprint, etching on handkerchief |
 making of... |  work by Patrick Mangnus |
 printmaking studio and housingat Kloster Bentlage, Rheine |  Relics at Bentlage |
 first trials |  last pull |
 Kloster Bentlage, Rheine |  etching studioat Kloster Bentlage, Rheine |
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 silkscreen and litho studioat Kloster Bentlage, Rheine |
Wanted 2010
printmaking residency
Kulturhuef
Print and Playing Card Museum
Grevenmacher, G.D. of Luxembourg
A research into Kulturhuef's past and present building history.
From slaughter house to playing card and printmaking museum.
Home to the Dieudonné collection of historical playing cards and of bygone typographical machinery and letterpress archives.
4 animals to illustrate a case...
Dieu donne - à volonté?
 Wanted exhibition viewKulturhaus, Niederanven, Luxembourg |  à volonté60x40 cm woodcut and handset letterpress printed on butchers' paper |
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 Dieu donne50x60 cm woodcut and linoprint |  worshippart view of Wanted exhibition |
 the Wanted edition40x30 cm etching and handset letterpress |  line of workat Kulturhuef, Grevenmacher |
 letterpress |  making of |
Artmix II 2006-2007
cultural exchange and residency
-6 artists;
Rog Molitor, Diane Jodes, Cordue, Joan Timmel, Manuela Osterburg, Igor Michajlow
-3 cities;
Luxembourg-Saarburg-Saarbrücken
-2 countries; Luxembourg-Germany
 abstaubenDiane Jodes and colleague artist Manuela Osterburg |  exhibition view LuxembourgKonschthaus beim Engel |
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 Königlicher Untertan70x120 cm crocheted wire fish |  Sleep is ...crochet, sleeping cap |
 Sieben Schläfer, Seven Sleepersexhibition at Künstlerhaus, Saarbrücken (D) oil paintings on wood, linoprints on silk cushions |  detail from Sieben Schläferlinoprint on silk cushion |
 Tränenfänger, Tear Catcherssugar stiffened lace, gold paint |  tear wipes30x30 cm linoprints on silk handkerchiefs |
 Rapunzel and MelusinaAMuseum, Saarburg, exhibition view |  Fairy Land15x15 cm 7 oil paintings on wood |
 Saarburg10x20 cm linoprint on hand printed map |  15 minutes of fame |
Ein Männlein...
A Facebook project, made into a book.
Find the complete book here
A photo diary of small, big, mysterious, spectacular, thrilling, bright, beautiful, mystifying, kitsch, ugly, trivial, cliché and sometimes not so interesting encounters during our daily doggy walk in the woods and in the world... For whatever or whoever it is good for.
October 11, 2010 - October 10, 2011
4 seasons
365 days
one photo a day...by Diane Jodes
brèves (re)trouvailles...
2017
Kremart presents
a book by Laurence Klopp
illustrated by Diane Jodes
 the bookfind it online click link |  October 18, 2010 bow |
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 November 1st, 2010 fifth wheel |  December 19, 2010 stuck |
 December 11, 2010 Tauwetter |  February 1st, 2011 foursome... vier Weiblein stehn im Walde |
 February 16,2011 good day for snails |  March 6, 2011 tunnel vision |
 April 8, 2011 la vie en rose... pink before I go |  April 11, 2011 love and peace... at a good pace |
 April 20, 2011 fake-ling... meets Feigling |  May 16,2011 elevated cuteness factor |
 September 26, 2011 rough landing |
